First things first-we’ll have a look at some of the fallout (or falldown in Allen Hurns’ case) from yesterday’s action.
According to a certain Mr. Schefter, Hurns has already had surgery on his un-located ankle, which is now relocated. Older white residents at the hospital are worried that Mr. Hurns’ presence will bring down the overall property value of their recovery rooms.
Some fella by the name of Kris Richard (Secondary Coach/Passing Game Coordinator for the Cowboys) will be interviewed by the Dolphins, Jets and Bucs today. Enjoy your ‘hot name’ status, guy that should be spelling his first with a ‘C’ and an ‘H”.
Another coaching candidate is the Colts D boss, Matt Eberflus. His unit finished 10th in points against with 21.6 for the season as a whole but I mathed the last six games, including a loss to the Jags and Indy is tightening the screws down to a ridiculous 13 points per tilt allowed. Given that they’re playing again next weekend I’ll save my joke about his last name till then.
TO THE GAME!
Bolts/Black Birds:
Seems fairly simple to me-the Chargers have to find a way to stop the league’s most effective run game (since Week 11) that manifests itself in the Ravens read option thingy. LAMAR!’s average is 5.5 yards per rush and when he hands off to rb Dixon (7.9) or Gus Edwards (6.4) even more damage is done. I don’t see that happening.
Last time these guys went round the maypole Baltiless forced the Rivers and Co. into 3rd and more than 10 on 66% of their total drives. Combine that with a 44% pressure rate when The Fecund One dropped back to pass and there’s your recipe for failure, if not total disaster. A partial solution might be to involve rb’s Gordon, Ekeler and Jackson in the passing game some more. This unit combined has 6 catches or less in 5 of their last 6 tilts. That won’t cure all ills but it might be a start. All in all, this is Bally’s game to lose, methinks.
Crank up the Mimosa Fountain!
Three running plays up the middle, then field goal. Calling it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdQjqY9JDmI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlbx2XCqgeE
BUCK ALLEN!
now THAT is an old school name!
/my ded grandpappy would be upset to learn he’s black
His name is BUCK and he likes to FUCK!!!
I think Brick mentioned doing it, but does anyone else do the NYT crossword? Does it seem like the Friday has been harder than Saturday recently or is it just me?
I really like Anthony Lynn as a HC, but I don’t see how or why CdM would attempt another forward pass the rest of the game.
I’m sorry, Jim, I cannot get excited about a TFL that is going to lead to yet another stalled drive.
To me, the worst trait of most NFL coaches is trying as hard as humanly possible not to admit they’ve made a mistake.
It cost Belichick a Super Bowl!
Considering the average tenure of an NFL coach and the reasons they get fire, I kinda get why they do that.
of course, I would gladly retire off the proceeds of ONE contract, so I would take as Gonzo approach as possible. The upside is tremendous.
America’s Game
Decades of decisions by their predecessors have taught them that playing to not win is a winning strategy.
is that sunk cost fallacy? or loss aversion?
I think it’s a weird theory of “leadership” under which you’re allowed (and maybe even encouraged) to admit failure in a vague, general way (“we all need to do better. Offense, defense, special teams. I needed to coach better.”) but not in a specific way (“yeah, it was dumb to punt there”). I think it’s because coaches have a lot invested in this idea that they are Wise Men whose decisions should not be questioned by their players, and preferably not by anyone.
how in the name of sweet monkeyfuck do you:
1) Stick with Lamar! (when the Clippers du Merde gameplan has it locked down in a vice); and
2) Kick a FG on 4th and THREE?
No balls.
an onside kick would have sated me, but you was right
Greggggggggggg: /triggers Siri on an oversized phone “Add new note: GAME OVER”
Mike McCoy: “I am a good fit for the Ravens coaching scheme.”
/A four story sized crab emerges from the arctic ocean and begins to lay waste to the Northwest Territories
Which should I vote for?
Original
[pushes glasses up nose]
Is RC Cola a choice?
Yes, in general, but not for my specific question.
#1, easy
Whichever one is running against Donald Trump
DFO: Come for the dick jokes, stay for the discussion of optimal tax policy!
DFO: Door Flies Open or Discuss Financial Operations?
High brow dick jokes!
If that’s not a reflection of the shittyness of this game, I don’t know what is.
Given that, I love that y’all are so smart.
You know, we could form a hell of a white collar corporation.
Is anyone here an accountant? We seem to have all the other learned professions covered.
We have a surprisingly complete collective skillset: Tech, accounting, medicine, law, cooking, gambling, drinking.
DrugsPharmaceuticalsSpeaking of which, who wants to invest in this Mary, Queen of Pots dispensary idea?
What did you think I meant by medicine?
D’Oh! Silly me.
I was only thinking about Seamus, which actually should fall under animal husbandry. 😛
SUDDEN CHANGE WOO!!
Just put the game on. -1 passing yards. Well done Baltimore.
Whos ready? I’m ready!
Like Terry Bradshaw has any idea what songs he’s accidentally singing
Like he has any idea
Clearly Lamar’s fault that he got sacked in 2 seconds.
I am betting we get Bert next series.
Which O-linemen’s wife did Lamar fuck?
YES
/he’s young, he still has adequate re-charge capacity
Is it weird that I was kind of disappointed to see that field goal attempt get blocked?
Dawwww nuts
John Harbaugh is about to write a sternly worded letter to the league about how you shouldn’t be allowed to kick five field goals in one game.
And you know what? I’m fine with that. You get four. After that you have to go for the first down or TD.
WHO IS WITH ME?
Not me!
–Bill O’Brien
Justin Tucker really doesn’t know how to fight through a block smh
yep, must have been an epic halftime talk
Well that puts the Chargers right back into position for another field goal.
…Was the entire defense jogging on that play?
I’m not going to lie to you guys, I’m going to switch away to the Nets game in about an hour, and I don’t feel particularly conflicted about the decision.
Imagine somebody saying that about an NFL playoff game four months ago. You’re doing a great job, Goodell.
AOC putting the idea of a 70% marginal tax rate on eight-figure incomes has sparked some incredible discourse, let me tell you.
It is amazing the degree to which lower and middle class people voluntarily worship the uppers.
I’ve had an army of mostly 30-60 something dudes scream at me about incentivizing productivity without any understanding of productivity whatsoever. And are they smug as fuck about it? You know it.
Public polling data consistently shows that even a (slight) majority of Republicans supports tax increases on the rich. So the game that gets played is pretending that any proposed increase wouldn’t be just on the rich. And of course that minority of Republicans is the most vocal.
Hence the incredible discourse. The key is tell them all to fuck off to Galt’s Gulch and emphasize you are not the slightest bit joking and that you want them to do it.
the most important thing is it puts the RIGHT on the defensive for a change. Viva AOC, even from a centre-lefty like me.
Yeah, I have some misgivings about AOC being “ready for prime time” just yet, but the way she freaks out the right may be valuable all by itself.
I worried more about that before Noivember, but now I’m starting to think she’s more strategic than given credit for (and/or is working in tandem with Demmycratic leadership)
Democratic leadership has no interest in a 70% marginal tax rate and don’t have much interest in a Green New Deal either, so I don’t think she’s working with them very much.
To be honest, I have no idea what they are interested in. They even shat themselves after Rep. Tlaib used to i-word.
Also, I love Rep. Tlaib almost as much as I love AOC.
I wouldn’t rule it out, for Overton Window reasons. John Boehner and Paul Ryan spent the last decade shrugging their shoulders about how THEY only want slightly-wacky-right-wing-policy, but the Freedom Caucus will revolt if they don’t get at least pretty-damn-wacky. Meanwhile, Dems are always getting pulled to the center by their red-state/district members, without a lot of countervailing pressure on the left flank. I bet Pelosi really doesn’t mind having some vocal socialists on her left that she can blame when negotiating with Republicans.
But, but … society will fall apart without their elite… uh, coding skills? Hedge fund management?
The guy I was bickering with was a doctor, so he’ll say he won’t see as many patients if he’s taxed that much, but the demand will still exist and someone else will just step in to seize it. Medicine is certainly a high-level skill, but it’s not *that* rare.
The biggest annoyance is that we’re not trying to tax people who work for a living like doctors and lawyers to excess. It’s assholes like hedge fund managers who don’t actually contribute anything to the world.
AGREED
The doctors and lawyers pulling over $1 million a year can definitely be taxed more, especially the latter since their income will be shares of giant settlements completely detached from how much work they do.
True. I’d also support it because they all seem to be assholes, too. Anyway, I’m going to end up sounding like a retard so I’m going to stop here.
what DOCTOR makes $10M-plus a year, anyway??
we are predominantly talking re passive income
The highest-paid state employees in most states are, after university football and basketball head coaches, university hospital teaching doctors in specialty fields. some earn up to $5 million a year, and so there are probably private sector specialists who can earn that much.
HOWEVER, they are the exception.
Although this is a whole other discussion and how so few doctors are becoming GPs because it pays a lot better and involves far less stress from insurers and employers to be a specialist.
110% inheritance tax
Consider who owns the entirety of the discourse.
Incredible discourse like people pretending they don’t know what marginal means.
And again, Rocket Ismail and I just covered marginal tax rates in the mailbag!
https://www.doorfliesopen.com/2018/12/26/mouth-flies-open-door-number-2/
Nice bedwetting to shift the Overton window left, and get it up to somewhere in the 40-45% range.
It IS ridiculous that there is no progressivity in the tax code after $500K
But that would return us to the dark old days of… the 1950s!
1950s? But that might also lead to increased unionization!
Which brings to mind the question for MAGA-choads: when, exactly, was America last “great”?
January 1, 1863
Which America, “United States of” or “Confederate States of”?
And the eradication of polio!
Oh no! Vaccination rates might go up!
I like to amuse myself by figuring out which people don’t understand how MARGINAL rates work, and which are just pretending not to.
Middle-class republicans are simultaneously piously blue-collar while fearing their taxes increasing because they have no concept of exactly how much wealthier the top 10% are
If you survey people on the degree of inequality in this country, they’ll *greatly* underestimate it.
People also believe that income = productivity so if you put a cap on that, those supposedily ultra-productive people will screw us all (out of spite) and send everything into a tailspin. This is bullshit, of course.
I note that whenever one of this billionaire CEOs is writing a memoir or doing some puff-piece interview with Corporate Bootlicker Monthly, they never claim to be motivated by money. And I think that part’s true! They’ll happily grab an extra billion or two if you let them, but at a certain point they have more money than they could spend and it’s all about power and ego.
The *only* reason to accumulate that much cash is to leverage as a tool of power over others but you’d be lucky to get the people accumulating it to admit it’s purely malicious.
Right, which is why I’m squicked out by right-wing arguments that we don’t need to provide social service X, because private charity will take care of it.
Private charity is good in that of course it’s a more noble use of private wealth than most of the alternatives. It’s obviously good that, say, Bill Gates is willing to spend money on good causes than on a fifteenth yacht. But it makes me very uncomfortable that our education or social welfare system or medical research or whatever else should be dependent on the preferences of a wealthy few.
Charity is a scam by the wealthy.
I wouldn’t go quite that far, but the motives are definitely a complicated mix.
A couple of months ago, when one of the big lotteries was making headlines, Slate ran a good article explaining how the smartest thing a lottery winner could do would be to set up a private charitable foundation with most of the money. It minimizes tax liability, allows you to appoint yourself and your family, friends, entourage, posse, etc. to cushy six-figured administrative positions that require modest work, lets you feel good about handing out money to good causes, and all those good causes will be kissing your ass for the rest of your life. (As one director of such a foundation put it, “since I took this job, I’ve never told an unfunny joke.”)
Bill Gates’ Foundation is the biggest reason behind why we have common core in schools. He funded the research, the lobbyists, and legislators to vote for it–all without having to listen to outside input. I do not consider his motives any less self-centered than they were when he ran Microsoft.
You’ll never convince me that Bill Gates, soulless monopolizer of all things tech, cares more about the greater good of education than he does about creating an entire generation of people who look up to and want to be more like Bill Gates.
.. or, if you want to be nice, out of a genuine love for what they do.
I had one executive speak to my class and I will say that he genuinely appeared to love working that much and making that much. The kicker was his wife was in attendance and told us all they passed on children because of his work and you could absolutely detect the anger in her voice when she said it.
The world didn’t need more rich, spoiled psychopaths.
The whole concept is stupid because anyone making 8 figures would set up multiple corporations to collect that income and thus really wouldn’t be claiming anything over 7 figures as personal income anyway.
There is a legitimate counter-argument to very high marginal rates based on the idea that it encourages people to waste resources in tax sheltering activities. But a well-structured tax code and a sufficiently empowered and funded IRS could deal with the worst excesses at least.
Regardless, there’s no legitimate argument that someone who makes $10 million a year is 100 times more productive than a person who makes $100,000, which is the argument most of these dunces are making.
which is why shutting down tax avoidance loopholes (in addition to an expansion of the progressive tax code) is the most important thing to maximize revenue (fairly), after you get attention by calling for a super-high alternate rate
This is true. However, getting politicians to close tax-avoidance loopholes is about as likely as Rivers using contraception.
Proposal for top tax bracket:
I’mma always be #TeamBloodFoarTehBloodGods
HAIL KHORNE!
DFO is a great tax policy blog
found a funny:
Picture this. You’re blind folded. Sandra Bullock tells you not to look. You look. You’re surrounded by garbage and dirty socks. But how can this be? It smells amazing? This is a febreeze commercial.
When you told me I was being blindfolded by Sandra Bullock, I hoped this was going in a very different direction.
First pic my dog stood still for in like 3 months, which is a small consolation for having to watch this fucking game:
Oh goodness. I do love german shepherds. So handsome.
Does he like chasing bouncing balls around? He could probably get a spot on the Ravens roster if so.
He would have caught that Rivers float, at least
M.A.G.Owww
It’s a shame he didn’t break his neck
So maybe this has been well discussed, but what the hell happened to Drew? I’ve been hibernating as much as possible when not dealing with a family emergency (dad who isolated himself now has dementia, woo), so I’ve missed out on the gossip.
There was a thread (since deleted) on his twitter about how it involved alcohol overindulgence.
D. Magary (OUT) – PBR
Apparently drank too much one night, puked on himself, and almost choked to death on it? That’s what I gathered.
Oh jeez.
thought that only happened with heroine?
This is why #tweetyourweight was a bad idea. Losing weight just made him a lightweight drinker.
He somehow hurt himself after the Deadspin awards. He tweeted vaguely about it and then those were deleted. From what I remember there was blood involved and he was nearly paralyzed. So at least he would’ve gone out in true Funbag style.
Rivers is playing fucking great
Weather update from friends/family in Chicago: 40 degrees (American) and windy
Weather in LA: 57 and sunny.
Shall we send you a rescue dog sled, some Sherpa hikers, and a St. Bernard with some warm brandy?
The answer is always yes
7 possession lead. Mercy rule this shit and let’s get to birds.
#4: 4/4
And now it’s a six-safety game.
This is a pretty one sided FG showdown.
For future reference.
KILL KILL KILL KILL
https://twitter.com/nancywyuen/status/1081952934470942724
Fuck. Tony Romo is only 3 years older than me. Life is meaningless. Just curl up and die.
He was born only six days before me. I think I need to see a therapist about this now.
He’s older? Fuck you.
I remember the first time I referred to a professional athlete as “a kid.” I feel like that belongs in one of those Progressive “we can’t stop you turning into your parents” commercials.
That reminds me, I need to work on my age related morbid project
He’s got me by half a year. My window as a championship QB is probably just about shut as well.
I don’t know why, with the Chargers back in the Playoffs, they didn’t hire LaDanian Tomlinson to bike around the sidelines and provide updates and reports.
Because he’s employed by Clan Spanos a d therefore has gone to the dark side?
NO FUN LEAGUE
uttt oh Weddle is hurt….
kickkake requires one more FG before the half
on pace for 8 FGs!
pure scheiss porn
That was an all-time float and the worst drop I’ve ever seen.
That pass resembled a stunned dove at the opening of the Olympics more than anything else.
My people are already causing chaos
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So proud
An entire Soldier Field full of Bears fans on LSD sounds like an excellent playoff game.
I’m more interested in this “Dan Ryan” drug.
Sounds white and mellow, probably been stepped on a lot.
I hear ya, man, it’s never been a tougher time to be a white male.
Something about an Irish designer drug made of apples that makes you slash your corporate tax rate or something.
Fuck, I hadn’t even thought of following the Whose Line boys on Twitter, but I may have to start.
This game must approximate the feeling of dying from a heroin overdose except for the part about it feeling pleasurable in any way.
Yeah but if you shut it off now a dead BOLTMAN baby is going to be crawling along your ceiling
King: “Super Bowl L-I-I-I promises to be an honest game, not a L-I-I-I-E.”
Breer: “The NFL and NCAA are the most honest business models. Slavery was good.”
/a massive thunderclap rends the sky open, and severed hands with a mouth of gnashing teeth in their palms rain down on to their exposed skin
Wait a second.
/Yanks off the Breer mask
